If it weren’t for rocks, we’d all be surfers

I don’t surf. I wish I did, but I grew up on the ocean of the Great Plains.

Climbing is like this. Maybe moreso. Everyone fails, all the time. If you aren’t failing, you aren’t trying hard enough. Unless you are Adam Ondra or Alex Megos, you only send once in a while – unless it’s easy, in which case it might be fun but isn’t that rewarding.

If it’s rewarding, it’s hard, and the odds of success are low. Because the odds are low, it’s rewarding. You learn to embrace the failure. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.

Posted by bware on Saturday, April 29, 2017, at 9:05 PM.Filed under Climbing, Comment.Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed.Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.